Not precisely on topic here, I know. But this list shares a lot of relevant knowledge and experience and I have easy access, so I'm asking. Please forgive the distraction.
I am a fairly active user of a Digital Personal Work Station (PWS) and generally run OpenVMS on it. I have a body of my own code for amateur radio antenna and signal modeling, etc. written primarily in Fortran. Looking at this unhappy end-of-life situation for hobbyist OpenVMS, I'm wondering if there is a UNIX available for that processor that doesn't require me to purchase an expensive license. Linux would also be acceptable, but the only Linux I found a couple of years ago that supported the Alpha was Gentoo, and that one didn't work all that well. It had no graphical interface, for one thing. I am familiar with UNIX and shell commands, that's not a problem. However, I do make use of graphical output and having no working XWindows is an issue. Debian used to have an Alpha port, but apparently that is no longer supported. There was a Windows NT for Alpha and I even have a copy, but it's very old and limited, and I have no Fortran or C compiler for it. DEC's own Tru64 UNIX would probably be ideal, but I have no idea whether it can be obtained any more or will run without an unobtainable license key. Any UNIX or UNIX-like system that can run GNU compilers or similar will probably work for me. Any thoughts on this? Comments welcome. Thanks. Gary, K9NZI
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